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26 Artists Magazine June 2020

rousedmeoutofbedin

themorning,wavinga map

anda guidebookinmy

sleepy face, insisting that

I get up and start drawing

breakfast right away. It

has refreshed my brain

in a way that a couple of

weeks on a poolside lounge

chair never could. Unlike

escaping into a pudgy

mystery novel and a piña

colada, my travel jour-

nal has cleared my mind,

refreshed my eyeballs, and

stockpiled a cache of lovely

and enduring memories.

I started to travel because

I draw instead of vice versa.

Drawing while traveling has

made me fall more deeply in

love with both, rekindled my

love of sketching and made the adventure of new destina-

tions something I look forward to and plan for years.

A UNIQUE VIEW

A few years ago, I wrote An Illustrated Journey, in which

I highlighted the travel sketchbooks of 50 artists in

one book. I discovered in interviewing people for the

project that to talk about art and travel is to talk about

life—to learn people’s stories and their loves.

Sketchbooks reveal that although we may travel to the

same points on the map, we’re each actually visiting very

different places. The pages show how our accumulated

experiences impact each of us differently and create

roused me out ofbedin

Airports are full

of great subjects

to start and end

your odyssey.

Captions and notes

turn landscapes into

rich stories.